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Dear all, On August 6th I joined Cork CND in commemorating the 9th anniversary of sanctions on Iraq by protesting at the airport in Cork. Cork CND members held a city centre protest the next day on Saturday 7th August, and are now adopting this as an ongoing campaign. Reaction from Irish people was far more sympathetic than the British public, including the man in the photocopying shop who gave a discount on petition photocopying when he saw that it was an anti sanctions petition. Why the difference? Maybe its easy to sniff at foreign policy enforced by someone else's government, or maybe its freedom from the media bombardment in the UK. But it was encouraging to find that people encountering the issue often for the first time reacted in a natural way that was reassuring about humanity. (Incidentally the Irish F.O. while not distancing themselves from the US and UK, did say that they "liked the French proposals " for lifting the sanctions.) Richard Byrne. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not sent emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***